Three

Katherine entered the Grill as soon as she had parked her car. She raised an eyebrow when she looked inside. It was completely empty except for a few middle aged customers. Katherine wasn't surprise, it was barely nine. Any other decent person was still asleep.

She recognize one curly blond at the bar though. Was that Caroline? Katherine walked towards her, she would rather sit with the nonstop talkative blond than the rest of the middle age group.

"Care Bear. Matty Blue Blue." Katherine greeted as she sat in the stool.

Matt and Caroline didn't offer a sort of greeting, instead they just stared at her as if they were seeing a ghost. "What are you doing here?" Caroline finally asked.

Katherine shrugged, not wanting to admit her boring excuse. "I was bored and will you stop looking at me as if I just killed a puppy? God, judge much?"

"Well, if you came to ruin Elena's life, don't bother she's gone." Matt warned.

Katherine rolled her eyes as she snapped her finger signalizing to Matt to pour her a shot. "I could care less about my self-centered, useless doppelganger. Where did she go anyway, I thought she was the protector of her beloved Mystic Falls? What did she finally roll over and die or something?"

"No," Caroline responded, glad to speak to someone else that wasn't tired of it. Even if that someone else was Katherine. "She and Damon went on their disgusting romantic getaway."

"Ugh. Vomit."

"Tell me about it." Caroline rolled her blue eyes. "How the hell can she be with him? Stefan and she were perfect for each other! I mean Damon is a compete asshole, when I was human he compelled me, feed on, treated me like shit-"

"-He feed me to Silas, he tortured me on my deadbeath-"

"Exactly! At least you get it." Caroline nodded approvingly. "Damon is a complete, self-centered jackass who doesn't care about anyone and ever since she started dating him, she's changed. I don't even recognize her anymore, she acts like everything is about her-Opps." She blushed. "I didn't mean to say that."

Katherine shrugged. "Go ahead. Say what all of us are thinking, though if we are going to be hating on Elena, I'm going to need more booze."

Caroline sighed, knowing she was going to regret this. She leaned forward and fluttered her eyelashes at him. "Matt, how about you get us something that will make us forget that our lives suck?"

Katherine nodded. "Sounds about right." she exchanged smiles with Caroline.

Matt raised an eyebrow. "At nine am? I thought that went against your beauty routine."

"Hello, Matt, Caroline's dead. She's a vampire. She never going to change. Besides its happy hour somewhere around in the world." Katherine placed down the shot glass again. "What are you waiting for? Hit me, Matty Blue Blue!"

"I wish I could," Matt mumbled. "Literally."

Katherine ignored his request as she looked around. "So, where's Bon Bon?"

"Over there," Caroline motioned towards the table a few feet away. "Feeling sadder than me."

"What's with you, I thought you were Miss Perky Polly? What caused you to go all emo?" Katherine raised an eyebrow. She usually wasn't fond of Caroline's sunny personality, but that's what made Caroline, Caroline. Besides Katherine was already depressed enough, she did not need Caroline to bring her down even more.

Caroline shrugged. "My whole life is going downhill."

"Already? Honey, you haven't survived 500 years running from some maniac." Katherine rolled her eyes. "Don't exaggerated."

Caroline nearly spit out her drink. "Went down the wrong pipe." Caroline ran a hand though her blond hair, she was already feeling woozy. "So what are you really doing back in Mystic Falls, Katherine?"

Katherine shrugged, but didn't offer a concrete explanation. "What about Stefan? Is he still around?"

Caroline shook her head. "He went to Portland."

"Bummer." Then a twisted smile appeared on her face. She ran a finger through the cheery wood bar stand. "So does that mean the Salvatore boarding house is completely empty?"

"Yep." She nodded as she showed her a key. "He left me a key though for emergencies."

"Perfect." Katherine smirked as she grabbed the key. "I'll take this."

"What are you doing?" Caroline wondered.

"Don't you worry your pretty blond head," Katherine said as she headed towards the doorway. "Just get Bon Bon, she looks pathetic moping by herself. We're going to celebrate new beginnings by drinking all of the Salvatore's good wine."

Elijah Mikaelson saw a flash of brown, wavy hair. Katerina? That was the first name that came to his mind. Though he knew it was stupid. What would Katherine be doing in New Orleans? She wouldn't be closed to Klaus and besides knowing Katherine she must have already forgotten about him.

Someone closed the door, and the brown hair belonged to Hayley who flashed him a smile. "Morning." Hayley was wearing a pink tank top that showed off her six month pregnant belly.

"Morning." Elijah tried to hide his disappointment. Hayley had been living with his family for sixth months, yet from afar he still from time to time confused her with Katherine. He didn't know why though Hayley and Katherine were two different people.

Hayley sighed as she opened the refrigerator. "No milk again! Since I can't go out by the all mighty Klaus's orders, the least I can ask for is for you guys to get me milk."

"Rebekah, will get that for you."

Rebekah who had just come into the kitchen, snapped at them. "Excuse me, I'm not somebody's milk girl. If someone should get the baby mama some milk it should be Klaus. He would be happy to get it for her, especially since he's been so happy ever since he came from Mystic Falls-"Rebekah's blue eyes widened. Oh, crap. He was going to kill her.

"What?" Elijah and Hayley said at the same time.

"It's nothing." Rebekah tried to say. "Toast anyone?"

Elijah wasn't falling for it. He approached Rebekah. "Rebekah, when did Klaus go to Mystic Falls? Why? And how do you know?" he raised an eyebrow. "Rebekah, tell me."

"He went to visit, Caroline." Rebekah said refusing to face him as she grabbed an apple. "Three months ago, I went with him to visit Matt, but, Elijah there's something you need to know. Klaus and I weren't going to tell you, but-"

Elijah felt himself growing desperate as he grasped her arm. "What Rebekah?"

"Katherine's dead."

-End of Chapter Three-